The Osceola times., 1887-09-17

HrSRy BECKER, aged seventy, was shot
and fatally wounded at Shenandoah, Pa,
on the sth, by Nicholas Knebeis. The lat.
Ter had been paying unwelcome attention
10 Becker's daughter, aud was ordered out
Of the house, but refused 10 go, and during
q scuffle Becker was shot There Is not
much hope OF Becker's recovery.
ALL the Bald Knobbers At Jefferson
City, No., except one. who jumped his
bond aud fied. went into court on the 9Th
and submitted to a verdict Of guilty.
COLONEL THOMAS O. SuLLY, aged seven
ty, for many years chief Inspector Of the
New Orleans Cotton Exchange, committed
suicide ON the 9Th by drowning.
JAS. HERMEs, a German, aged hfty-
eight years. shot himself in the temple on
the 9Th at his home In Broom street,
Newark, n. j. lie had been in New York
for two days on a spree. The physicians
say he can not live.
TuE coroner who iuvostig gatsd the death
from poisoning of Mrs. Mclntyre, Of
Chm. o., has entirely ex0nerated her
husband from blame, as he'-siso came
near dying from drinking from the same
| pot OF coffee. The verdict Was death
from poison administered by unknown.
parties. ~
BPADE SuSsHiN was hanged at Table
quah, 1. T., on the 9th in the Nation
Il prison yursi. He was convicted of
the murder OF Long John In the Sequoyah
district la st Chrisfmas night. He Showed
no sign OF fear and was nervy 70 the last.
A FIRE starting In the cellar Of Timothy
BROTHERS, dry goods store ON the public
square OF Nashville, Tenn, on the 9th, de-
stroyed both buildings, each three stories
high. The stock OF goods, valued S12o,O0o,
was half destroyed, and the remainder
badly damaged by fire aud water, lnsNred
for 10000. sH
WHILE Peter Rentz, a stonecutter, form
erly q resident Of 81. Louis, was at work
In AN excavation In Kansas City on the
9th, stone weighing several tons Tell
from above on him. crushing him into
shapeless mass and killing him instantly.
THOMAS KELLY, Michael Grove and an.
other man named Walters were buried
alive on the evening Of the 9th, In the
new aquedutt at North Workers., n. Y.
The earth above cayed In on them. They
lie under l20 feet OF earth, and their IL no
possible chance OF their having escaped
instant death.
WH1r.E ascending a flight Of stairs IN the
hotel at Hurricane, u small town in Put.
nam County, ". Va, on the 9th, Rev.
william Tuily fell. A pistol In his pocket
was discharged, and he was fatally shot.
The bullet entered the body near the heart
ami he died IN n few minutes. He was
thirty years old.
The railroad shops, store'rooms and
machinery OF the Chicago, St. Paul
Milwaukee road at rankton, OAK, were
burned ut midnight OF the 9TH, flames
catching from an engine that was being
cleaned. Two locomotives were damaged
to the extent Of S5,0oD. Total loss, Sj), 900:
insured.
OS the night OF tho 10th five saw.mlls
were burned at Minneapolis, MINI. Loss,
s2i0, 200; Insurance unknown.
EARLY ON the morning Of the 10th the
works of the Ohio Shear Company at
Elyria, o., were burned. Loss, $50, 900
on the 10th Porter a. Savage's tannery
and boot and shoe factory at Montreal,
Can., were burned, involving II loss Of over
Saj0,000. Three hundred hands are thrown
out Of employment
On the 10th VIM. McCausland, who was
purchasing cattle at McConn's landing,
near Brownville, Pa, was murdered and
robbed while crossing bridge at Brown.
vile. Great excitement was occasiened
BY the crime and the boldness of its per-
petrator.
A DESTRUCTIVE food has swept away
twenty miles Of the track Of the southern
Pacific railway between Tucson and Ben.
son, Ariz., which will cause entire cessa-
tion Of traffic over the Southern route for
several days.
On the lith Fred Ronze, In jail at Clay
Center, Neb., accused Of wife murder,
committed suicide.
On the morning of the lith the Pennsyl-
vania railroads new round-house. ma
chine shops, five locomotives aud six tanks
at Lew wiston Junction, Pa. were destroyed
by fire. Loss, $4,000.